Hello, This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2018-01-08.

== Highlights== * Latvian and Arabic Wikipedia's enabled mapframe on their respective wiki's (completed by community volunteers) [0] [1]

== Discussions ==

=== Search === * David tuned the wikidata fulltext search similarity parameters [2] * Stas fixed an issue with the IDs option in forceSearchIndex.php is broken [3] * Trey finished his initial analysis of phonetic algorithms available in Elasticsearch. [4]

=== Portal === * The portal's stats and translations were updated on January 8, 2018 via our mostly automated process [5] [6] * Jan updated "liguru" to "lìgure" on the Wikipedia portal [7]

== Did you know? == * Last October, the President of Kazakhstan announced that the country would switch from the Cyrillic to Latin alphabet.[8] As a result, over the course of about 100 years, the writing system for Kazakh will have changed from Arabic to Latin to Cyrillic and back to Latin. Several Turkic languages[9] spoken in former Soviet Republics have gone through similar shifts, including Azerbaijani,[10] Turkmen,[11] and Uzbek [12]—with the most recent shift to Latin for some beginning in the 1990s. Thus some speakers of those languages lived through all three changes to their official writing system.

== FY 2017-18 Q3 (Jan-Mar) goals == This status was last updated 2018-01-08. [13]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183981 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183764 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182293 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183197 [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Overview_of_Phonetic_... [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180772 [8] https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Kazakhstan:_President_Nazarbayev_signs_decree_t... [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_languages [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_alphabet [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmen_alphabet [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbek_alphabet [13] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2018-01-08#FY_2017-1... ---

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[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R

Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation